The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-04-29


cur friends are cordially invited to drop in
From Fridays DaILY FREE PRESSl
!. G.. Roller wants Beans, Barley
Timuthy Seed and Potatoes.
One of our large manufacturers re-
GENTLY was met on the street by 4 MAJ
who owed him 10 cents, and who ten
derrd him a onc-tifth ticket in the
Louisiana lottery in payment of same
Our manufactures thought nothing of il
until the recent drawing, when he dis
covered that his ticket had drawn sion
and came very close Ia drawing the cap
ital prize of Sl50,OO0. The |. IN. says
nothing, hut the other fellow hasn't
got through kicking himself yet.
According 10 an Associated Press
telegram the Interstate commission has
received letter from Mankato signed
A Sufferer" who says that for the past
five years citizens of this city have been
paying their fares 10 the conductors and
thereby making goodly saving. lie
complains that since the new law went
Into effect the conductors persist in de-
handing schedule rates, and the suffer
er wants the commission TO look after
tins discrimination. The letter is gen
orally regarded us the work of some
practical joker, or, if not that, the wri-
ter Is probably some fellow who has
tried To check his way through, and
failing, seeks 10 be rcvengcd on the con
duCturS.
From Saturdays DAILY FREE PPEsS.l
Buy Your Hay, Flour and Feed Of
J. q. Roller, nj low prices.
Maj. Clarke reports the sale of one
S4-lu acres "a lot ;, town Il, range 81
}. \. James Ia {. II. Lindsey. price
Sl.S,u
The offices of the C., Vi. X -. p.
Ry. ia this city are draped in mourning
in honor of Alexander Mitchell. the de
ceased president of the road.
Note the change in time Of trains on
the Chicago, Milwaukee X 1t. Paul.
which took effect sunday, at ii a. IN.
The morning accommodation leaves AT
200 instead of G:i5, and the mail and ex-
press arrives AT SID a. m, instead of SD
as heretofore. No other changes.
The FREE pEE~> office j. in receipt
of the finest line of stationery ever
brought I" this city. and It's facilities for
executing all kinds of commercial job
printing L. unsurpassed by any office in
Minnesota. Prices will always he found
as low as l. consistent with tirst-claSs
work.
Ill. Washburn, Esq, Is now com
fortably settled in his new law offices ON
the second floor Of the !. o. q. +. build
ing. With the large, welI-lighted rooms,
new furniture and other furnishings, Mr..
Washburn has in his new location one of
1he most convenient and elegant law Of
fees 10 be found in the state.
The foundation for the new depot of
the Wisconsin, Minnesota X Pacific is
completed. The track layers are within
a few miles of the city and il is fully cX-
peeled that the trains will be running 10y
June LIST.
F. Widcll, who has the contract for
work on the extension of the Minnesota
x Northwestern ,advertIses for 100 men Ia
work AT Galena, ILL.,, Immediately. Free
transportation is offered. Wages 81. -
per day. Mr.. Widell has taken another
large contract of grading for the Mime.
sofa 4 Northweste The work in,
cludes several big cuts, one being AT
least 100 feet deep. Mr.. Widell will
put on a force of several hundred men
Officers Martin and Jones this after.
noon arrested two malicious tramp;
whom they found in West Mankato
They had started fire i'm vacant house
and only for the timely interference o
the officers, the house would have beer
burned Ia the ground. They were giver
% minutes 10 leave town, and under the
eagle eye Of the officers left the city a!
fast as they could make tracks over the
muddy roads.
From Mondays DAILY FREE Pass.
DO not fail to see comfy Farmer''
Daughter" Opera House, May I'd.
j. q. Roller has the finest Corr
Planters and Drills for sale, also Corr
Flows
-Teamsters hauling off manure vii
find a convenient dumping ground oil
Palmer's Addition.
Send in your order and have tn,
DAILY FREE Press delivered at your resi-
dence every evening.
Rev. Carnahan, of st. Peter occupied
the pulpit at the Presbyterian churcl
morning and evening Friday.
Mr.. Jcwson's class of the Baptis
:. s. will give Il dime social at Mrs. Dur
KEGS Friday evening, April ~, proceed
TO go toward paying for the Sunda.
School window" in the new church
Everyone invited.
Citizens were surprised Sunda,
morning to find the ground covered
with two or three inches of SNOW. TIL
beautiful" soon disappeared under tn,
rays of the sun, but the atmosphere a
day remained quite chilly.
-Messrs. NJ. q. Willard and Geo. II
Brewster, of this city, have been select
ed as members of the State delegation t
represent Minnesota IN the Fifth Inter
national Sunday School Convention to b
held at Chicago the first week In June
According to the program Iaid OF
by the Minnesota division OF the Leagu
OF American Wheelmen for their week
tour they will reach st. Peter June 2Sth
and take dinner at that place, afterward
wheel TO Mankato and spend the nigf
in this city.
In his "Arbor Day" proclamatio
Governor McGIll advises the planting
trees along highways and public an
private grounds. The action is con
nendaUle, as there is nothing that MOI
beauties a city then plentiful suppl
of shade trees. ArbOr Day occurs neg
Saturday.
Max Krolik, who is charged with a
son, and whose trial is to come off at til
May term Of the District Court in tn
city, has been dangerously i'll at Denve
Colorado. His attorney here Is IN n
CENT of letter this morning stating Tia;
Mr.. Krollk has suffered from sever
hemorrhages, but his condition now
better, and he is considered out Of dal
ger.
Mr.. X. q. Faegre, who has been Il
pastor of Our Savior's Evangelical Lut
eran church, corner Pleasant and Ca
roll streets, for several years, has ell
barked III the boot and shoe business
st. Paul, and has moved his family
that city. Mr.. Faegre will come
MankatO Sundays to discharge his pa
toral duties until the first of June, wine
ms successor will be installed.
Fire escapes are TO be put on Il
Opera House, and the entrance doc
enlarged. The management of Il
Opera House have determined to spa
no pains or expense in makingth the bull
ing comfortable and safe Ia its patron
and with lirst-class engagements prOpO
to place the Mankato Opera Hou
among the leading Opera House of t
Northwest